December 17, 2020 3:55 a.m.

The COVID-19 Weekly Report, released on Wednesday by the Oregon Health Authority, showed a drop in weekly cases, deaths and hospitalizations.

OHA reported 9,222 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday December 7th through Sunday December 13th. That was a decrease of 11 percent from the previous week, reversing a trend of seven consecutive record high weekly case counts.

The report said there were 491 people hospitalized for COVID-19, a slight decrease from the previous week.

116 COVID-19 deaths were reported, down from 133 the previous week.

People age 20 to 49 have accounted for 55 percent of the cases, while people 70 and older have accounted for 76 percent of the deaths.

There were fewer tests for COVID-19 reported for the week of December 6th through December 12th. The number of COVID-19 tests administered to Oregonians dropped to 149,243 from 170,964 the previous week. The percentage of positive tests were lower, at 7.4 percent.

The full report is linked here: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/DISEASESCONDITIONS/DISEASESAZ/Emerging%20Respitory%20Infections/COVID-19-Weekly-Report-2020-12-16-FINAL.pdf